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DIFFERENCE IN SITTING HENS iSome Fowls Are Lacking in Hen Sense and Do Not Cover Their Eggs in Proper Manner. Some hens of course make better mothers than others, but more than this, some are much better than oth ers for sitting itself, according to a subscriber to Wallace's Farmer. Two hens were each given an egg to cover while waiting for the sitting of eggs to come, and when the eggs arrived two or three days later the two eggs in the nests were taken out and bro ken. The egg from hen No. 1 showed a third less development than the egg under hen No. 2. As the first five ;days are ihe most important time in ?thc sitting period, indications were ? that hen No. 2 wculd hatch out more j chicks than hen No. 1. These results ,were indicated by the behavior of the ! two hens. ; Hen No. 1 seemed to be lacking j (said the owner) in hen sense. She j felt the fever of broodiness, but ap jparently didn't know what was the ?matter with her, only she wanted to ?sit, and she sat. When she was taken off the nest for food and water, she ?continued to sit, gluing her3elf to the ?floor like a lump of putty, picking up the corn within her range, but mak ing no effort to get what lay out of ?reach. . f Hen No. 2 had work to do, and in [tended to do it. When take from her nest she expressed dissatisfaction, but noting that her breakfast was ready, she ate and drank, spread her feath ers, stretched her muscles, and went 'back to her nest. No. 1 had to be ?put back. People sometimes think that to be hen-hatched means well ?hatched; it doesn't always work out that way: much depends on the qual ity of the hen as an incubator. FOULTRY FARM IS OUTLINED Illustration Shows How Ten Acres May Be Laid Out for Best Results -Ample for One Man. ' A poultry farm of ten acres is am ble for a one-man establishment and fe. good living can be made on it. The Illustration shows how the ten-acre poultry farm may be laid out for the Ibest results. Five thousand chickens, '500 of them breeders, could be com fortably carried on this farm when it was running at its full capacity. There are three breeding houses, counting the cockerel house, and three laying houses. Each laying house is calculated to hold 1.500 laying hens, writes Chesla C. Sherlock in Farm and Home.. They may be built on any scheme acceptable to the owner. There is also a brooder house which should accommodate 1,000 chicks at ,one time. The dwelling house and farm barn complete the outlay of buildings for the place. It is planned to have from eighty to one hundred fruit trees, although there could be more. There are two Lay-Out of Poultry Farm. larg? fields which could be alternated with the usual farm crops, the larger one having ten colony houses for the growing stock. There is also a garden, a pasture and a runway for the cockerels. .A large share of the grain consumed by the poultry could be raised on such a place and there should be a good sur plus revenue from the sale of g'arden and fruit products. The detailed scheme of the farm is left to be worked out according to one's wishes. 1 WATCH FOR DROOPY CHICKS 'White Diarrhea ls Most Destructive During First Ten Days After Hatch ing-Remove Ailing Bird. ! Watch the brooder closely for the . droopy chicks, especially during the first ten days after hatching, for it is during this period that white diarrhea is most destructive. As a rule the chicks are hatched with it, and it usually develops in from four to six days. Take each droopy chick from the ibrooder as soon as discovered, and be careful to scald drinking vessels and change the scratching litter. After the first week the chicks are 'toot as susceptible to this diseaise, and 'will not immediately take it from one (having lt. | By following this plan the majority 'of the hatch may be saved. Great Laying Strains. Not every hen hatched from a great laying strain will be a great layer. In the national egg-laying contest, one hen has been on the job two years 'and never laid an egg. Fatten Before Marketing. j Spring chickens, like other poultry ?io? sale, should be fattened before be jink put on market, and the milk-fed [Chick makes speedy growth. HARRY'S INTERVIEW j_By ADELA ^^^^^^j (Copyright, 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) It is not often that a young fellow, after serving an apprenticeship of two years on a newspaper, is in a position to marry. So Harry Rogers accounted himself a particularly fortunate young' man. Laura, to whom he had said good-by *in the little home town when he start ed for the metropolis to make his for tune, had remained true to him. He had been home three 'times on vaca tion, and each time their love had seemed more real to both. Laura was to become his wife with in a mouth! She was to go to New York to stay with her aunt, whom Harry had never met, and they were to be married there. In a week he would see Laura again. Symonds,- the city editor, called Harry over to his desK. "We're going to publish a series of funny interviews, and I want you to handle the first," he said. "It's" with the world-renowned authoress, Eliza beth Crow Cavendish. She wrote A Girl's Safety,' 'The Happy Marriage,' etc. Shopgirls' slush, you know, and takes herself very seriously as an up lifting power among those who read her twaddle. Think you can do a mock serious interview to raise a laugh?" "I think so," said Harry. At eight o'clock that evening he waB being shown into Miss Cavendish's house. The elderly lady who awaited him at the table apologized for not rising, and the crutch beside her chair explained her reason. Harry was con scious of an impression distinctly pleasing. He felt a little regretful about his mission. Still, a newspaper man is bound in strictest loyalty to his newspaper. It was evident that Miss Cavendish took herself very seriously indeed, and, becoming confidential, in her simple way she showed him, under a pledge of confidence, the manuscript of her forthcoming work. "Cynthia's Happy Choice." I It was only after he reached the street that Harry realized he must turn this hospitable kindness into mockery. However, he knew the duty of a newspaper man; and perhaps be cause of his humiliation he wrote the funniest of all the interviews that ap peared. Harry received no letter from Laura for several days. It had been planned that he was td meet her at the station and take her to her aunt's. He was beginning to grow uneasy when he re ceived a letter with the New York postmark. ' "Dearest Harry," she wrote, "I have arrived in New York, and I thought I would give you a little surprise bytlet ting you remain In ignorance until I had actually come. You. see, my dear, the train came in so late at night, and, with your exacting duties, I couldn't let you come and take me so far and miss your sleep. I was quite well cared for by the agent for the Travelers' society. "And now I have a little surprise for you. My aunt is no less a person than Miss Cavendish, the famous authoress. What do you think of that?" Harry read the letter and sat still as though stunned. Then he per ceived that another missive, with a ro mantic pink scented envelope, lay be side his papers. He opened it. It was from Miss Cavendish. "I cannot begin to tell you," it ran, "how much I liked your delightful in terview. But, Mr. Rogers, I am afraid you have overestimated my influence among working girls. Come and see me and let us have a nice unprofes sional chat." With determination that did not falter he made his way to Miss Caven dish's house that evening. What agonies of spirit he endured during the day only he knows. He was shown into the same room as before. The room was empty. And while he stood there, desperately gath ering together the few strands of cour age that remained to him, the door opened and Miss Cavendish hobbled in with her crutch. She came up to him and held out both hands. "Now I knovr who Harry Rogers Is," she said, "he ia doubly welcome." And the little old lady kissed him on the cheek. "Miss Cavendish," he began, "that interview-I must tell you-I must ex plain-" "My dear boy, it was simply splen did," the old lady answered. "It made me feel prouder of my work than I ought to feel. Not a word more, be cause I am too old to blush, Harry." And the young man realized that the spiteful, envenomed shaft had passed her by. She was utterly unconscious of the hidden satire, of the malignant sneers. She was too high to be struck down by the poisoned arrow. And while Harry stood in perplexity before her, an awful relief in his heart, Laura came in. And Miss Cavendish quietly went out of the room. If Laura's kisses comforted him, they also made him feel abashed to the lowest level of humiliation. ' "I read your beautiful interview, Harry," she said. "And, do you know, it 'makes me think you will rise very high, when you can see so much in auntie's writings. Many fine writers have misunderstood her and her simple aims-but you didn't, dear. And I am happier than I can tell." And it was that unconfessed secret which he knew he must bear alone thenceforth that made Laura'? prophecy come tr*?. A Soliloquy in Two Paragraphs 'That's the third time this morning. I can't wait a moment longer on that fellow. Let me see-what is Smith's number? "If Jones won't provide sufficient telephone facili. ties for his customers, he can't blame me for dealing elsewhere. Operator, give me 437." 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